THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 19 
Description.— Whole head, neck and lower parts, bright ferruginous 
red ; the crown deeper and more chestnut ; chin, throat and sides of 
head, albescent and supercilia also paler ; upper back black, with two 
sharply defined white bars on each feather ; lower back, rump and 
upper tail-coverts black with bright rufous-pink V-shaped central 
markings ; tail black, the central rectrices with narrow sub-terminal 
rufous bars ; scapulars, wing-coverts and innermost secondaries light 
olive-brown with bold sub-terminal black spots ; quills, grey-brown, the 
outer secondaries tipped and edged with rufous mottlings ; flanks 
black with white bars ; posterior flanks ferrugious with black drops ; 
centre of abdomen and vent whitish ; under tail-coverts pale ferrugi- 
nous and black. 
Colowrs of Soft Parts.—Iris dark brown, bill black ; legs and feet 
pale dirty-green to rather clear apple-green. 
Measurements.— Total length about 275 mim. ; tarsus 47 to 48 mm. ; 
bill from front 20 to 21 mm. ; tail 65 to 70 mm. ; wing, males, 143 to 
151 mm. ; average about 146°6 mm. ; females 154 to 140 mm. ; aveTage 
138°0 mm. 
Distribution.—The Northern Malay Peninsula, extending into Ten- 
nasserim, Siam and Northward to at least 100 miles North of Tavoy 
where it has been obtained by Hopwood. In Siam it was obtained by 
Mr. E. G. Herbert’s collectors and Gairdner states that it occurs in 
Ratburi and Petchaburi. 
Nidification.— Nothing known at present. 
Habits.— All that Hume could find to record of this Partridge was 
as follows :— 
“A denizen of dense and uninhabited forest, where the tracts 
of wild elephants, bufialoes and the Saladang (Bos sondaicus ?) 
constitute the only pathways, nothing absolutely seems to be 
known of its habits. My collectors have succeeded in snaring 
a few specimens, and have ascertained that it feeds on insects, 
seeds and berries, but they have never even seen it wild, nor have 
they been able to procure any information about it or its nidifica- 
tion from the Malays.” 
Since the above was written over 50 years ago, but little has been 
added to our knowledge. However, recently, Mr. C. Hopwood, Conser- 
vator of Forests, has been so fortunate as to personally come across 
this Partridge in its native haunts. In a letter to me, dated 30th 
January 1918, he writes :— 
“Yesterday I got a fine cock Caloperdia oculea near the head 
waters of the Tavoy River, 100 miles North of Tavoy, which 
extends its hitherto recorded habitat 300 miles or so to the North 
of that given by Davison, Bankasun, Victoria Point. It is pre- 
sumably to be found over the whole of Tennasserim at least up 
to the Douna Range which forms the watershed of the Tavoy, 
Ye and Thaungyin Rivers. Before I was successful in getting 
